4 Reasons Why Becoming A Vegetarian Is A Fucking Stupid Idea

Note: This post is not meant to target those who are vegetarians for religious reasons or those who are vegetarians because they have some chronic disease that doesn’t allow them to eat meat. Instead, I’m targeting every single idiot out there who is a vegetarian for reasons like animal cruelty and health benefits.

Edit 9/10/14: Alright time to clear some air here. I started FitMole back in June 2011 and wrote this article in Aug 2011. Back when I started the blog I was trying to discover the best way to generate more traffic. So I thought to myself, “what’s the best way to get people talking?” So I came up with this article and the slightly edgy, and some might even call immature headline. And yes, I know the article can be seen as a bit offensive and ignorant. I still stand by my claims 100% that going vegetarian isn’t healthier than eating meat, but I do take full responsibility for some of the slightly ignorant comments I’ve made about animal cruelty. Other than that, can the person who keeps sending me death threat emails stop now 🙂

First off I just wanted to say I’m sorry. I normally don’t swear in the post title, but I just have to emphasize how stupid it is to become a vegetarian. It’s stupid, ridiculous, unnecessary, stupid, and did I mention it’s FUCKING stupid.

I have a couple of friends and family members that are vegetarians, and don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate them. I just can’t understand why they decided to follow this lifestyle.

When I ask them why they decided to become a vegetarian, they give me reasons like “Oh, it makes me feel good,” “Because meat is bad for your health,” or “I don’t want to harm animals.” Whenever I hear these reasons, I just put on my best “nod and pretend to agree with you” face.

So why is becoming a vegetarian stupid? Lets take a look:

1) You aren’t saving the lives of animals

I get it. You don’t like it when the heads of baby cows and pigs are chopped off, but do you really think eating that tofu burger is saving lives.

Fruits, vegetables, and grains are a staple among vegetarian diets, but did you know that millions of animals die just so you can enjoy that piece of bread? Eating foods like grains means destroying ecosystems and all of its inhabitants. It means killing all the little animals, birds, bugs, and microorganisms that live among the fields.

Do you know how many little animals and microorganisms die when farmers use machines to plow through wheat fields? The answer is a lot more than 1 cow.

As cheesy as it sounds, everything in life requires sacrifice. Animals are killed to get meat and ecosystems are destroyed to get grains. So the next time I’m eating a steak, don’t you dare judge me for killing a cow.

2) There is absolutely zero scientific proof showing that going vegetarian is healthy

When I want to believe something, I need proof. I need definite scientific proof.

And no, proof doesn’t mean reading a quote in Shape or MensHealth magazine. In order to convince me about anything I need to see a scientific study that shows causation not correlation.

For example, eating less food will make you loss weight. This is a stone cold fact that will remain true no matter what.

However, there is absolutely ZERO proof showing that going vegetarian will decrease your risk of heart disease, cancer, or whatever nasty stuff you can think of.

The only thing we have are thousands of studies showing a correlation between an increased risk of disease and an increase in meat consumption. We have studies that conclude that eating meat “may increase” your risk of heart disease, but this doesn’t mean crap. It’s inconclusive and doesn’t prove anything. Saying that your risk of heart disease “may increase” from eating red meat is like saying you “may” be able to breath fire if you eat enough jalapenos.

And yes, before you get all crazy on me, I have read the China Study a.k.a the vegetarian’s wet dream. For those who don’t know, the China Study was a big study conducted by Dr. Campbell who basically concluded that meat is killer.

While the China Study garnered a ton of media attention a couple years ago, it is also an incredibly flawed study despite it’s massive scale. But talking about all the flaws in the China Study is beyond the scope of this article, so let me turn you over to a great article written by Denise Minger of Raw Food SOS. She did an amazing job in analyzing the China Study and basically debunked every single aspect of it.

People need to stop believing the mainstream media, and need to start looking at the actual research and facts.

[The leaders of anti-vegetarians]

3) You don’t get to eat meat

I know this is a bit obvious, but being a vegetarian means that you don’t get to eat meat. EVER. That means no steak, bacon, horse, or BBQ ribs. The closest thing you’ll ever get to meat is some glued together crap made of wheat and soy.

And please, don’t tell me that your veggie burger tastes better than my double bacon cheeseburger, okay? Don’t tell me “Oh, but it tastes just like the real thing.” No it doesn’t, you rationalizing crazy person. It doesn’t matter how hard you try, a piece of tofu will never taste as good as a greasy piece of beef.

So if vegetarians are so concerned about their health, then why do they opt for highly processed foods likes breads and cereals that are not found in nature as opposed to real animal meat which has been around since…. forever. It makes no freakin sense.

4) Vegetarians are actually eating animals without knowing it!

This past summer, I took a Biology 101 class at a community college to fulfill some general education requirements for my degree. While the class was a complete waste of my time and I pretty much bull-shitted my way through it, I did learn something quite interesting.

I learned about the food web, which is basically description of “who eats who” in the environment.

It goes something like this:

fox eats rabbit => fox poops into the soil => the living soil then absorbs the poop(which includes the rabbit) => fruit and vegetable plants absorb that exact same soil to grow => humans eat those same fruits and vegetables

This process happens EVERYWHERE in nature.

So even if you’re a vegetarian, you’re technically eating dead animals, albeit in a more indirect liquid form. But last time I checked, vegetarians were all about saving lives no matter what.

Don’t be a vegetarian

Despite everything you’ve heard, vegetarians are NOT the health conscious animal saving saints that they’re made out to be.

Instead, vegetarians:

Support the destruction of ecosystems to obtain their food

Kill millions of small animals, bugs, and microorganisms

Aren’t saving their health since there’s absolutely zero scientific proof showing that meat is bad for you

Are actually eating meat without knowing it

Are simply misinformed about every aspect of the vegetarian lifestyle

So if you’re a vegetarian, then hopefully I’ve done my job to piss you off beyond belief, and if I converted you, then that’s cool too.

Once again, the only reason why you should be a vegetarian is for religious reasons or because you have a some chronic disease that doesn’t allow you to eat meat. But even if you’re a vegetarian for religious reasons, you might want to start questioning the logic behind your beliefs, just saying.

Alright guys, be sure to share this article with every single vegetarian you know, and to close out this article I have 3 parting words:

Listen you ignorant vegans/vegetarians
Calling this person horrible just because he does not suit you’re ideals is just plain foolish
Everyone has their own right to eat whatever the hell they want
Stop trying to force people to follow your dumb beliefs okay? You wanna eat non animal products for the rest of your sad life is fine by anyone, just don’t keep preaching useless crap like “oh meat eaters are horrible”.
Conclusion: Shut the fuck up and just believe in your own ideals instead of insulting or discriminating against meat eaters

I was a vegetarian for close to ten years, and this article doesn’t and wouldn’t have pissed me off at all. I think most of us know about the food chain, animals being killed during harvesting, as well as the fact that so many animal parts and other gross things are allowed in processed food. For me, being a vegetarian was never about being perfect or never ever harming any other creature. It was just about doing the best I could to cause the least harm. I have never understood the preachy people on either side of the vegetarian debate. I still do my best not to buy meat, eggs or dairy products from factory farms because they are insanely cruel. I wish people didn’t have to rely on so much suffering for food. Myself included now that I eat meat again. It’s a sucky situation all around, so why not just do the best you can at any given time? That’s always been my motto as far as being a vegetarian went.

I tried many different diets in my life, and that with a lot of research each time. I have a lot of knowledge about nutrition and real-life experience. Whish those diet experiment, I have healed many of my health problems and became way stronger, healthy and vibrant.

At 40 years young, some cashier still asks for my ID when I buy some alcohol.

I can guaranty you that, the Vegan diet is probably the most retarded and dangerous diet in existence. It actually should be illegal to put children on such diet has it is putting their health in danger.

No wonder why not culture / tribe / civilization ever survived or prospered on such kind of diet.

If you want to get healthy and your conclusion is to be vegan, you’re a very badly informed idiot.

Currently, I’m on a pretty strict Ketogenic diet, which is low carbs – high fat and the benefits are amazing and its pretty much the complete opposite of this vegan nonsense. When I go see the doctor once a year for a routine exam, they ask me what is my trick!!

Chuck Freeman – I do exactly the same you do.
My doctor is astonished -and yes – vegetarism is so stupid-my godness !
But, I have no beers,but a Coca Cola once in a while.

But,hey-when all the stupids are gone -more place for us !
There are some pretty good real estates I have laid my eyes on – and there
owner are veggies -I just have to sit and wait(grinning).
Probably I dont have to pay Money for some proberties….(Smile).

Being Whole Food Plant Based is the best decision I have ever made. I feel amazing, no sickness, and full of energy. I don’t eat any animal products. My goal is no processed foods. God bless. Appreciate your insight and honest opinion.

Right, I am vegetarian and I am not stupid. I became a vegetarian when I realised that there are 8 billion people on Earth today (to put this into perspective, when my grandma was a kid there were only two billion, and when Jesus was a kid there were 200 million), all trying to live like kings because we’re all worth it right?

Because of the way we choose to live, animal and plant species are now going extinct so fast that biologists are calling our age the sixth mass extinction (the fifth was the one that did it for the dinosaurs).

How does eating meat cause mass extinction? You need 100x as much land for 1g of protein from meat versus 1g of protein from pulses. So 100x as much forest has to be cut down to turn into grazing land. As a result of this (it is called habitat loss) and because we douse all this land with insecticide, a recent study published October 2017 by PLOS found that insect numbers have crashed by 80% since the 1980s. If this does not alarm you, then it’s not me that’s stupid (sorry, your title is not exactly playing nice). Insects are at the heart of the web of life – without them pollination fails, birds starve, and goodness knows what else.

How does eating fish cause extinction? It’s not your fault if you haven’t heard of the craziness that is industrial overfishing, as it is scandalously ignored by mainstream media. Follow the Blue Planet Society on Twitter and cry. See the heaped dolphin carcasses caught in bycatch. See entire ocean floors turned into desert all around the UK (where I live) because of trawling for scallops. Cry when you hear of yet another extinct species.

It is easy to see, if you choose to open your eyes, that overconsumption is poisoning our world and us with it. Meat and fish eating, it turns out, is one of the luxuries we just cannot afford any more unless we have a collective death wish. Now we either change our consumption voluntarily by saving meat/fish for special occasions the way it used to be, allowing nature space to regenerate (the smart way), or we wait until we turn our planet into a Blade Runner desert (the “fucking stupid” way).

Think also of what kind of world we’re building for our kids? Oceans of plastic instead of fish? A world empty of animals except domesticated ones?

If you want to truly understand, the author George Monbiot is the man for aggregating heaps of environmental research in an honest, useful and no-holds-barred way.

It’s funny how meat eaters have such anger. Calm down. My husband and kids eat meat, but I don’t. It’s just amazing how my husband gets pissed off if he makes a crack at me and then I throw one back. How funny to hear him say “please stop talking about the animal while I’m eating”. No matter if you eat meat or not. Fact is the animals that are killed feel it all. It’s when meat eaters have to hear the details of their death do they get pissed off. If anyone claims they have no problem looking in to an animals eyes and then killing it for food. They’re emotionless people or they’re lying! The more you meat eaters trump up and put us vegan she down. The more I realize it truly bothers you .
Btw I’m not a frail fragile person. As a matter of fact I kick boxed for 4 years and did damn well. So we don’t need meat to live and stop with the fruits and vegetables destroying the planet. All plants unless taken the root. Will give fruit or it will drop to the ground and rot. So whether we take it or not. It’ll fall from the plant or tree. Very few animals take up residence in a constantly used field, especially with pesticides being sprayed in it. Even organic plants are dusted with natural pesticide most of the time. So there’s not much life living in it that doesn’t run off before it’s harvested. It’s always the meat eaters that have the problem with the vegans. I wonder why Seems you’re bothered by us for other reasons you can admit out loud or haven’t accepted yourself yet.